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Brought to you by Penguin. The wonderful new book from Britain's best-loved travel writer. In February 2025, Michael Palin travelled to Venezuela to get a sense of what life is like in one of South America's most culturally rich, vibrant but also troubled nations. In the journal he kept during...

Ontdek in deze fascinerende historische non-fictie hoe een veerkrachtige oerwoudbeschaving de kosmos ontcijferde. Terwijl je onderweg bent naar je werk of thuis ontspant, neemt deze sfeervolle luisterervaring je mee naar de verborgen steden van Meso-Amerika. Hier onthult de archeologie geen...

Uncover engaging Latin American history where centuries of conquest and relentless revolution forged a vibrant nation. Whether you need a thought-provoking companion for your morning commute or simply desire a deep dive into world history, this sweeping narrative captures the dramatic...

A New Yorker Best Book of 2026 "Revelatory. . . . At a time of great backlash and regression, North American women should indeed look to Latin America for a new way forward.”—Sarah Weinman, author of Without Consent Four electrifying and hopeful accounts of feminist uprising that have swept...

Drugs, cartels, mafia, addiction, the FBI, and coercion - this is the untold story behind the tragic decline of football's most gifted and controversial legend. Maradona was football's ultimate genius - a magician on the pitch whose talent rivalled only Pelé. But off the field, the boy from the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Peru is not a country you simply cross-it is one you climb. Stretching from one of the driest deserts on Earth to the frozen summits of the Andes before descending into the vast Amazon rainforest, Peru is a nation shaped by altitude. In Peru, Atlas...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. How the Aztecs taught their children to live: the prayers, orations and counsels of the elders, in a new translation. “O valiant lord of ours, beneath whose wings we take refuge, defend ourselves and find shelter! Thou art invisible and not palpable...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The living religion of the Incas, from the first men who wrote it down, in a new translation. In the Andes the sacred was everywhere: in mountains and springs, in stones and the mummies of the ancestors, in the sun and the thunder. Each of these was a...

Dieser fesselnde historische Überblick zeigt den dramatischen Kampf um nationale Identität am Rande Südamerikas. Ideal für das tägliche Pendeln liefert das kompakte Audio-Erlebnis einen atmosphärischen Einblick in ein extrem vielfältiges Gebiet. Lass dich auf eine bildhafte Reise von der...

Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across The Pampas And Among The Andes by Francis Bond Head. This travelogue collects Captain Head's firsthand notes from extended expeditions across the Pampas and over the Andes, with particular emphasis on mining ventures in the Rio de la Plata...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A century after the conquest, the Aztec gods were still worshipped in secret. This is the record of what was hidden, in its first English translation. “I am the priest, the very war, for whom everything is a joke and a laughing matter.” In the...

In 1519, Hernando Cortés arrived in Mexico to investigate stories of a wealthy empire. What he encountered was beyond his wildest dreams; an advanced civilization with complex artistic, political, and religious systems (involving extensive human sacrifice) and replete with gold. This was the Aztec empire, headed by the aloof emperor, Montezuma.

The Dispossessed tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man, Arnovis, whose family's search for safety shows how the United States-in concert with other Western nations-has gutted asylum protections for the world's most vulnerable.

Bloomsbury presents El Narco by Ioan Grillo, read by Paul Thornley. 'War' is no exaggeration in discussing the bloodshed that has terrorized Mexico in the past decades. As rival cartels battle for control of a billion-dollar drug trade, the body count- 23,000 dead in five years - and sheer...

Ernesto Che Guevara was a voyager - and thus a letter writer - for his entire adult life. The letters collected in I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959 (from which the book's title comes).

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. From the great pyramid of Chichén Itzá to the yellow city of Izamal, from the flamingos of Celestún to the cenotes of Homún, the convents route, the Puuc route and the beaches of the peninsula, this guide by José Eduardo Díaz Cutz takes you...

From bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos comes a pivotal new book that explores the current andfuture power of the Latino vote in American politics. The face of the American voter is about to change -- dramatically. With the growth of the number of Latinos in the...

For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon—a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land and presents an impassioned call to save it.

Brought to you by Penguin. Coffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world's most popular drug. The very word 'coffee' is one of the most widespread on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's brilliant new history tells the hidden and surprising story...

Un muy joven Ernesto Guevara viaja por América Latina, junto a su amigo Alberto Granado, parten de Argentina y se enfrentan a aventuras y realidades que los transformarán para siempre. Vivido y entretenido diario de viaje del joven Che. Esta edición incluye fotografías inéditas tomado por Ernesto a los 23 años, durante su travesía por sudamérica y es presentada con un tierno prefacio de Aleida Guevara, quien ofrece una perspectiva distinta de su padre, el hombre y el icono de millones de personas.